The Best Sight in Townsville, Great Barrier Reef

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Townsville is blessed with a golden, 2-km (1-mile) beach that stretches along the city’s northern edge. The beach, with its associated pools, water park, and adjacent parklands, is hugely popular with the locals, especially over school holidays and summer.

Billabong Sanctuary

Set on 27 acres of bushland, this eco-friendly, family-run wildlife sanctuary shelters koalas, wombats, dingoes, wallabies, endangered bilbies, snakes, crocodiles, meerkats, a Burmese python, lizards, and numerous native birds. The sanctuary has daily free-flight birds of prey shows, crocodile and cassowary feedings, and venomous snake presentations. Visitors can hand-feed turtles at the billabong, meet the meerkats, snap a selfie with a koala, or have their photo taken holding a lizard, a snake, or a baby croc. Thrill-seekers can book a personal croc-feeding, with or without souvenir photo.